Summer of Love was a weekly newspaper comic strip created by Peter Milligan and Brendan McCarthy and was published by 'The News on Sunday' in 1987. The newspaper had collected together some of the UK's biggest names in comics to produce strips, as well as Summer of Love there was 'Scatha the Witch Warrior Woman' written by Pat Mills with art by Glenn Farby. Unfortunately the News on Sunday folded before Summer of Love had finished it run.

Brendan McCarthy: "Basically a bunch of inept second raters were assembled to produce a so-called 'leff wing tabloid' with the inevitable result. They messed us around royally, the usual hassling for late payments, dropping the strips some weeks... just complete and total amateurish behaviour. Dealing with News On Sunday was a total bore, but that said, it was nice to get a strip in full colour out in a national newspaper to an audience that wasn't just the usual fan crowd.

Summer Of Love was our first attempt at a kind of light love story... we wanted to capture a certain mood, an ambience that is peculiar to small English towns. An 'end of the pier' romance. We tried to evoke the atmosphere of certain songs by The Smiths. The kind of image summoned up by lines like, 'The rain falls hard on a humdrum town... This town just drags you down...' The desperation of having dreams that are always broken by the reality of small town English life... 'By a river the colour of lead, immerse the baby's head... wrap her up in the News of The World. Dump her on a doorstep, girl.' We wanted the fantasy element to be very light, underpinned by the greyness of the out of season resort, Madford-OnSea. It's a real shame the story was never concluded, because it would have been a very nice, understated piece.

I thought Pete's writing on this was really nice, some of his strongest stuff. We were very conscious of the atmosphere we were trying to create, and we felt that as an environment known to most people in Britain, the drizzly decaying seaside town was a good setting for such a low-key approach to the romance between Stephen and Amanda. There were four episodes still unpublished, but God knows where all the art has disappeared to. As I indicated earlier, the high ideals of the left-wing tabloid evaporated pretty fast when sales were in decline. Anyway, I'm glad we managed to get out a story like that, I enjoyed working on it... it was a refreshing change."